""As we hoped, Hintze's further development made him one of the great ones in the discipline. To be sure, he was one of those who was only known in the circle of experts, like a very high mountain in a mountain range which one first noticed from the vantage point of a high pass."" --Friedrich Meinecke, 1941 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) ""What we call historicism is a new, unique, categorical-structure of the mind des Geistes] that began to arise...